Dictionary on Koya language soon by CIIL

The Mysore-based Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL)
proposes to bring out a dictionary on Koya language soon, according to
Dr PVB Sanjeeva Rao, heading a 30-member CIIL-commissioned research
team, which visited several areas of the district.
Disclosing this
to Express here on Sunday, he added that multilingual dictionary would
give the meanings of words used in the Koya language in English, Hindi
and Telugu.
He said that his team had visited Devipatnam,
Koyyalagudem, Kannapuram, Buttayigudem, Talalavalasa, Unavaram,
Rampachodavaram, etc., of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh last month. The
team had interacted with the elders of the Koya community and also the
educated among them and collected as 4,500 words for use in the proposed
dictionary he said and added that they included words relating to food,
flowers, clothes, body organs, religion, relatives, jewellery, diseases
and prayers. Stating that that the team had to take the assistance of
some tribal teachers in interacting with the Koyas, he added that the
team had recorded both the pronunciation of the words and their
meanings. Rao said that the team would soon submit a report to the CIIL.
Meanwhile, it may be noted that the Koya language is being
taught in the government schools in the Agency areas of the state to the
extent of 100 per cent in the first standard from last year through
special books.
It is learnt that the government now proposes to
teach 80 per cent of the Koya language in the second standard, 60 per
cent in the third standard, 40 per cent in the fourth standard and 20
per cent in the fifth standard. From Sixth Class onwards, the students
will be taught Telugu. There are about one lakh Koyas in the East
Godavari district.
Koya, a tribal community, gives importance to events like birth, marriage and death and they treat palm tree as God.
Incidentally,
Sanjeeva Rao is working as a Telugu lecturer at Sri Kandukuri
Veeresalingam Pantulu Theistic College in Rajahmundry.
Source: http://www.newindianexpress.com/

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